Quotes About Thrift

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift.

The disposition of everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.

pair of virtually new ASICS cross-trainers. It was remarkable what you could find in a Goodwill store these days.

the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Ask my family about my obsession for discounts and they will tell you.

Pennies saved one and two at a time

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.

Industry and frugality," he wrote in describing the theme of Poor Richard's almanacs, are "the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue.

Traditions decay when the reality facing the new generation changes. The habit of thrift decays if there is no penalty for not saving. The work ethic decays if there is no penalty for not working. Neighborliness

Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.